Menear Pools Quotes & Sayings

Cyn always liked watching women move,but there was nothing sexier than an angry woman moving with purpose. — Jess Granger

And your excuse?' I asked.
'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said.
I gave him a look.
'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.'
'I thought you were friends.'
'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully. Nowadays — Julian Barnes

The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school. — Sam Mendes

The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. — John C. Bogle

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. — Publilius Syrus

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived. — David Roberts

The heirloom biblical wheat of our ancestors is something modern humans never eat. — Rick Warren

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. — Alfred Tennyson

It often seems ... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love. — Oscar Arias

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch. — Marcus Aurelius

How's your dance card look?" "Double-check your century Jules. No dance cards." Jules shrugged & gave me his most flirtatious smile. — Amy Plum

As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self - the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells - and keep an objective eye on the reader. — William Zinsser